WEBVTT WSCENTER 5 AT 11:00 STARTS RIGHT NOW. ED: A FIERY DEBATE LIVES UP TO ALL THE HYPE. GOOD EVENING. I'M ED HARDING. MARIA: AND I'M MARIA STEPHANOS. HILLARY CLINTON AND DONALD TRUMP SHAKING HANDS TO END THE NIGHT. THE TWO REALLY WENT AT IT DURING THEIR FIRST SHOWDOWN. LIVE TEAM COVERAGE, FROM NEW ENGLAND TO NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON, D.C. LET'S BEGIN WITH EMILY RIEMER, WHO WAS LIVE AT THE DEBATE SITE IN HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK. EMILY: QUITE A NIGHT HERE. THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE SEEN DONALD TRUMP AND HILLARY CLINTON TOGETHER ONE-ON-ONE FACING OFF. AS YOU SAID, THERE WERE FIREWORKS. AS WE EXPECTED, BOTH OF THEM NOT PULLING ANY PUNCHES. ONE OF THE MORE FEISTY EXCHANGES WAS OVER TRADE, OVER NAFTA, AND WHETHER OR NOT IT HAS WORKED OR HELPED THE U.S. TAKE A LISTEN. MR. TRUMP: YOUR HUSBAND DECIDES NAFTA, WHICH WAS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS THAT EVER HAPPENED. MS. CLINTON: THAT IS YOUR OPINION. MR. TRUMP: YOU GO TO NEW ENGLAND, YOU GO TO OHIO, YOU GO TO PENNSYLVANIA, YOU GO TO ANYWHERE YOU WANT, SECRETARY CLINTON, AND YOU WILL SEE DEVASTATION WHERE MANUFACTURING IS DOWN 30%, 40%, EVEN 50%. NAFTA IS THE WORST TRADE DEAL MAYBE EVER SIGNED ANYWHERE, BUT CERTAINLY EVER SIGNED IN THIS COUNTRY. EMILY: IT WAS LIKE THAT, BOTH OF THEM TALKING OVER THE OTHER TRYING TO GET THEIR POINTS ACROSS, NOT PULLING ANY PUNCHES THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE EVENING. ED: BOTH CANDIDATES DEALT WITH THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING THEM. CLINTON WAS ASKED ABOUT HER E-MAILS. EMILY: SHE WAS. THIS IS SOMETHING WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR WEEKS NOW. THIS DOGS ARE CAMPAIGN AND HAS FED INTO THE PERCEIVED LACK OF TRANSPARENCY. SHE GAVE A PRETTY CONCISE ANSWER AND LEFT IT AT THAT. THIS IS WHAT SHE SAID. MS. CLINTON: IT WAS A MISTAKE USING A PRIVATE E-MAIL. IF I HAD TO DO IT OVER AGAIN, I WOULD OBVIOUSLY DO IT DIFFERENTLY. BUT I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE ANY EXCUSES, IT WAS A MISTAKE AND I TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT. MR. TRUMP: THAT WAS MORE THAN A MISTAKE. THAT WAS DONE PURPOSELY. THAT WAS NOT A MISTAKE, THAT WAS DONE PURPOSELY. EMILY: SO THAT WAS REALLY HOW THEY LEFT IT, DONALD TRUMP SAYING IT WAS NOT A MISTAKE, SOMETHING SHE DID PURPOSELY. IT DID NOT COME AGAIN FOR THE ENTIRE COURSE OF THE DEBATE, WHICH IS SOMETHING I'M SURE HILLARY CLINTON'S CAMP WAS HAPPY ABOUT, NOT HAVING TO EXPLAIN OVER AND OVER OR KEEP APOLOGIZING. TRUMP WAS ALSO ASKED -- THIS WAS A PIVOTAL POINT -- ABOUT THE QUESTIONING OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE. THIS IS SOMETHING HE HAS BROUGHT UP AGAIN AND AGAIN OVER THE YEARS, AND THE MODERATOR HERE, LESTER HOLT, REALLY PUSHED HIM ON THIS IDEA THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS NOT BORN IN THE UNITED STATES. THIS IS HOW THAT EXCHANGE WENT. LESTER: THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE WAS PRODUCED IN 2011. YOU CONTINUE TO QUESTION THE PRESIDENT'S LEGITIMACY IN 2012, 2 THOUSAND 13, 2015, AS RECENTLY AS JANUARY. WHAT CHANGED YOUR MIND? MR. TRUMP: WELL, NOBODY WAS PRESSING IT, NOBODY WAS CARING MUCH ABOUT IT. I FIGURED YOU'D ASK THE QUESTION TONIGHT, OF COURSE, BUT NOBODY WAS CARING MUCH ABOUT IT. BUT I WAS THE ONE WHO GOT HIM TO PRODUCE THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE, AND I THINK I DID A GOOD JOB. EMILY: AND HILLARY CLINTON CRITICIZING HIM FOR THAT, SAYING THAT DESPITE A LACK OF EVIDENCE, DONALD TRUMP HAS KEPT PUSHING AND PUSHING THIS ISSUE. THAT PORTION CAME DURING A SECTION WHEN THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA. IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHO WON THE DEBATE. WE WILL WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS THERE. CERTAINLY WHAT WE EXPECTED, FIREWORKS, NOT PULLING ANY